The man Kelly, accused of a direct share in the
murders in the Phcenix Park, about whom two juries in succession have dis- agreed has been tried a third time, and convicted. He was the man selected to "make sure," while Brady made the first attack upon the victims. Out of thirty-six jurymen who in the three trials heard the evidence, only three doubted his guilt, and in the third of them the Judge pronounced the evidence irresistible. It was, moreover, supported by the con- fession of Delaney, made after he had been found guilty, and without hope of reward. On hearing his sentence, which was, of course, death, Kelly declared himself innocent of murder, probably from a belief that the man he stabbed was already dead, and there seems no doubt that he is one of those in whom national hatred has disordered the conscience till he does not think the assassination of the alien a crime. He is asserted on all hands to have lived a respectable life. Owing to his youth and good looks, his case has excited much more sympathy than Brady's, and the foreman of the Jury has been already threatened with death ; but even for Brady, there is much feeling. It is said that on Whit-Monday, the day originally fixed for his execution, the excursions universal in Ireland will be avoided, in order to show respect for the assassin.
